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<br />002168 <br /> <br />Notes <br /> <br />1. For a brief, authoritative history of the dispute, see <br />former Ambassador Friedkin's essay, "The International <br />Problem with Mexico over the Salinity of the Lower <br />Colorado River," in Water and the American West: <br />Essays in Honor of Raphael J. Moses, ed. David H. <br />Getches. <br /> <br />2. Myron L. Holburt, "The Mexican Water Treaty and Its <br />Relationship to Colorado Water Supplies." Paper pre- <br />sented to the California Water Resources Association, <br />Coronado, California, August 11, 1972, p. 7. <br /> <br />3. Ibid., p. 9. <br /> <br />4. Office of the Federal Register, "Visit of President <br />Echeverria of Mexico," Weekly Compilation of <br />Presidential Documents, 8 (June 19, 1972), p. 1058. <br /> <br />5. Friedkin, op. cit., p. 48. <br /> <br />6. <br /> <br />Interview with Michael J. Clinton, former Chief, <br />Colorado River Water Quality Office, U.S. Bureau of <br />Reclamation, Washington, DC, May 2, 1989. <br /> <br />......,......., <br /> <br />7. Herbert Brownell and Samuel D. Eaton, "The Colorado <br />River Salinity Problem with Mexico," American Journal <br />of International Law, 69 (April 1975), p. 260. <br /> <br />8. Ibid. <br /> <br />9. Interview with Michael J. Clinton, op. cit. <br /> <br />10. Burt Schorr, "Interior Agency Pushes Desalting to <br />Smooth Troubled U.S.-Mexican Waters," The Wall Street <br />Journal, June 22, 1972, p. 15. <br /> <br />11. Interview with Michael J. Clinton, op. cit. <br /> <br />12. "Mexico's President--An Outspoken Visitor," U.S.News <br />and World Report, LXXII (June 26, 1972), p. 82. <br /> <br />13. The plan to achieve 80 percent on-farm irrigation <br />efficiency called for the use of advanced irrigation <br />systems--sprinkler, drip, and bubbler--that had not <br />been widely field-tested in 1972. The Subgroup <br />stressed that the 80 percent figure was a goal, subject <br />to revision upon further systems testing. But the <br />optimism of the scientists in the group proved <br />